Thursday, June 19, 2003

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Citing threats that include a shooting range, a highway project and a power plant, Indian advocates called on the federal government to ensure the highest protections for sacred places....

Navajo Nation leaders and health officials are taking aim at growing rates of syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases on the reservation....

President Bush plans to nominate a White House lawyer for a spot on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, The Washington Post reports....

The Keweenaw Bay Indian Community of Michigan is seeking to take a former airport into trust for a casino project....

The Bureau of Indian Affairs has neither approved nor denied gaming agreements for two Wisconsin tribes....

Federal authorities have laid charges against a Navajo man for the shooting death of another tribal member....

A Cherokee group seeking state recognition in Louisiana is promising not to open a casino during the next 99 years....

With 94 percent of the reservation containing timber assets, the Menominee Nation of Wisconsin is eager to exploit its natural resources but also careful to preserve them for future generations....

An animal shelter on the Navajo Reservation in Shiprock, New Mexico, will close this week, The Farmington Daily Times reports....

Lawmakers should keep all options open when considering how to cleanup the Tar Creek Superfund site in Oklahoma, The Daily Oklahoman says in an editorial....

A coalition of First Nations in the Northwest Territories of Canada signed a deal to clear the way for a $3 billion natural gas pipeline....

Lori Piestewa, the Hopi woman killed in action in Iraq, came under fire during a March 23 ambush in Iraq but there is no evidence she was shot, The Arizona Republic reports....

The Miccosukee Tribe of Florida is opposing an attempt to remove the federal judge overseeing the $8 billion cleanup of the Everglades....

The wife of a former Bureau of Indian Affairs judge and employee of the Eastern Cherokee Tribe of North Carolina has been charged with murdering her deceased husband....

The Nevada Indian Commission wants to turn the old Stewart Indian School into a cultural center and museum....

The Bush administration doesn't oppose a bill to land swap between the Eastern Band of Cherokees and the National Park Service, an official said on Wednesday....

The House Resources Committee on Wednesday held a hearing to consider a bill that would distribute a $142 million trust fund to members of the Western Shoshone Nation....

California Senator Jim Battin (R) is asking gaming tribes to hire his public relations and media company, The Los Angeles Times reports....

The Catholic bishop in Phoenix, Arizona, who has been arrested in connection with the hit and run death of a Navajo Nation man resigned on Wednesday....

Members of the Meskwaki Tribe of Iowa should be allowed to resolve a leadership dispute within the tribe, The Quad City Times says in an editorial....

The Department of Interior will meet with the Meskwaki Tribe of Iowa in an attempt to resolve a leadership dispute that has shuttered the tribe's casino....

Two gaming commissioners for the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin say they were unfairly terminated....
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